Persuasive Essay-Call to Action
Thesis Statement
In a persuasive essay, ‘call to action’ occurs where the writer makes a turn in the essay to get the reader to do what they wanted them to react or do from the beginning. The writer of the essay may narrate a case or situation that matches their topic of writing within a few paragraphs to get the reader emotionally connected. In other words, ‘call to action' should be that part of an essay that touches the open heart of the readers and gets them to act as the essay has opened their heart. The focus of this assignment is to analyze journals or scholarly articles that provide detailed knowledge on how a writer can achieve ‘call to action' in a persuasive essay.
Annotated Bibliography Summary
Source 1
Title: A Research on The Improvement of Persuasive Writing Skill of Sixth Grade Students in Secondary School.
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Author: Beyreli and Konuk, (2018)
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sumeyye_Konuk/publication/323516056_A_Research_on_The_Improvement_of_Persuasive_Writing_Skill_of_Sixth_Grade_Students_in_Secondary_School/links/5a9e7f710f7e9be973ceb3c3/A-Research-on-The-Improvement-of-Persuasive-Writing-Skill-of-Sixth-Grade-Students-in-Secondary-School.pdf
The article discusses research carried out to validate the achievement of persuasive writing skills in Turkish lessons. In this effect, a persuasive writing program was initiated and tested across different schools' grade six students. The analysis in this article shows that different genres of language can have similar expressions but it tries to denote persuasive writing and its distinction. This kind of writing supports credibility with reason. It helps students put down their thought in a comfortable and confidential manner. They can support the acceptability of their point of view in the writing. With this knowledge, one can put across a great call to action.
Source 2
Title: Say More and Be More Coherent: How Text Elaboration and Cohesion Can Increase Writing Quality.
Author: Crossley and McNamara, (2016).
Link: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED565450.pdf
The text depicts and explains the relationship between the quality of an essay, its elaboration and cohesion and coherence. The research carried out shows that there is a different score at every stage when different tools are employed. Varying combinations also alter quality. Persuasive writing must be easy to understand and possess the right tone. Knowing the right combination for example improved text cohesion and elaboration has an impressive result to the readers and easy to avoid sophistication. This can help develop an appealing call to action. These techniques are relatively simple adm should be taught as strategies in writing.
Source 3
Title: Improving the Persuasive Essay Writing of Students of Arabic as a
Foreign Language (AFL)
Author: Bakry and Alsamadani, (2015)
Link: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042815030177/1-s2.0-S1877042815030177-main.pdf?_tid=21606ac0-9b86-472f-a613-30bf492ba97f&acdnat=1551970151_4ea3aa60251f8bdfd4e8152b3dce329a
This article stresses that writing is important in social, linguistics and learning contexts because it enhances critical and creative thinking. The research carried out involved proves that writing is a combination of both social and cognitive skills. The writers connect intellectually and emotionally with their exercise. These are the basics of the call to action writing. The research involved competition of persuasive essay writing which was to be fun, meaningful and include all the parts. The students were to identify all the parts of the essay. The instructor read through as they identified the parts repeatedly until they could do it comfortably.
Source 4
Title: Argument mining for improving the automated scoring of persuasive essays.
Author: Nguyen and Litman (2018, April).
Link: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/view/16447/16154
The article introduces a focus on a new and emerging field in argument mining aiming to automatically identify text portions that are argumentative. Automatic means scoring written prose using a computer program. Since argument mining takes the argumentative portions of the text in the persuasive essay and can be quantified. Arguments are translative of the length of the essay. Cross-fold and cross-prompts are used as validation methods. The experiments seek to validate whether there is an improvement of a text when an argument is added. Having a clear knowledge of this helps in acceptable
Source 5
Title: Improving argument mining in student essays by learning and exploiting argument indicators versus essay topics.
Author: Nguyen and Litman, (2016, March)
Link: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/FLAIRS16/paper/view/12791/12616
There is an emphasis on argument mining in relation to argument indicators and essay topics. Previously, the arguments have been concentrated on persuasive essays but a different focus has developed. Here, the argumentative approach focuses on particular essay topics and evaluation of performance. Different ways to identify the argumentative portions of a text have been studied including discourse markers, argument keywords and domain words. The study involved a number of persuasive essays being examined. It was discovered that the ten most frequently used words in the post titles seemed argumentative and are used as argument keywords. This means they are parts of the persuasive essays and can be employed in formulating a call to the action plan.
Source 6
Title: Persuasion in higher education: a comparative investigation of argumentation strategies in student and expert opinion essays
Author: Van Geyte, E. (2018).
Link: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8636/1/VanGeyte18PhD.pdf
The study gives the importance of strong argument skills when putting down an essay for a reader. The reader-writer dialogue should be one without difficulty in understanding each other. The number and distribution of the components are determinants of the performance of the texts. The linguistics and argumentation strategies used to persuade the readers to differ in different essays and with various writers. It further guides that the writers should strive to employ good semantic and grammatical use for positive impact on communications. This knowledge will help one write and identify well written persuasive essays.
Research questions
1. How should a good persuasive essay look like?
2. What is a call to action and how do I create it?
3. What are the most used indicators in argumentative writing to denote an argument mining text?
4. Why is there a relationship between argumentative writing and persuasive essays?
5. How are persuasive essays validated?
References
Bakry, M. S., & Alsamadani, H. A. (2015). Improving the persuasive essay writing of students of Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL): Effects of self-regulated strategy development. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences , 182 , 89-97. Retrieved from: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042815030177/1-s2.0-S1877042815030177-main.pdf?_tid=21606ac0-9b86-472f-a613-30bf492ba97f&acdnat=1551970151_4ea3aa60251f8bdfd4e8152b3dce329a
Beyreli, L., & Konuk, S. (2018). A Research on The Improvement of Persuasive Writing Skill of Sixth Grade Students in Secondary School. Education & Science/Egitim ve Bilim , 42 (193). Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sumeyye_Konuk/publication/323516056_A_Research_on_The_Improvement_of_Persuasive_Writing_Skill_of_Sixth_Grade_Students_in_Secondary_School/links/5a9e7f710f7e9be973ceb3c3/A-Research-on-The-Improvement-of-Persuasive-Writing-Skill-of-Sixth-Grade-Students-in-Secondary-School.pdf
Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S. (2016). Say More and Be More Coherent: How Text Elaboration and Cohesion Can Increase Writing Quality. Grantee Submission , 7 (3), 351-370. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED565450.pdf
Nguyen, H. V., & Litman, D. J. (2018, April). Argument mining for improving the automated scoring of persuasive essays. In Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Retrieved from https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/view/16447/16154
Nguyen, H., & Litman, D. (2016, March). Improving argument mining in student essays by learning and exploiting argument indicators versus essay topics. In The Twenty-Ninth International Flairs Conference . Retrieved from https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/FLAIRS16/paper/view/12791/12616
Van Geyte, E. (2018). Persuasion in higher education: a comparative investigation of argumentation strategies in student and expert opinion essays (Doctoral dissertation, University of Birmingham). Retrieved from https://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8636/1/VanGeyte18PhD.pdf
